Drunk man Tasered by police in Riverside Park
Ypsilanti police officers repeatedly Tasered a drunken man in Riverside Park on Wednesday evening after he appeared prepared to fight them and became uncooperative.
Officers were dispatched to the park after a person called to say there was an intoxicated man wearing fatique shorts and a black tank top who was making crude gestures to women.
The caller also said the man almost fell into the Huron River.
When officers arrived, they discovered the 30-year-old man was incoherent. They began checking his property, but say he took a "fighting stance," and officers became involved in a physical altercation with him. They used the Taser a number of times to subdue him.
He was transported to St. Joseph Mercy Hospital.
Tina Reed covers health and the environment for AnnArbor.com. You can reach her at tinareed@annarbor.com, call her at 734-623-2535 or find her on Twitter @TreedinAA.
Comments
treetowncartel
Fri, Mar 19, 2010 : 10:19 a.m.
Whatever happened to the Vulcan death grip and handcuffs?
treetowntenor
Fri, Mar 19, 2010 : 8:04 a.m.
@ezbngreen: Pretty re-volting, eh? He shoulda stayed at ohm. He did show some pretty high resistance, even though he was incapacitored.
ezbngreen
Thu, Mar 18, 2010 : 8:59 p.m.
This is a very shocking story, very electrifying in its intensity. Watt was the guy thinking, anyways? Didn't he know that it hertz when you get tazed? Was his brain out of phase? In any case, he won't have the joules to do this again!
Lokalisierung
Thu, Mar 18, 2010 : 4:57 p.m.
Tazers are awesome.
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Thu, Mar 18, 2010 : 3:09 p.m.
dont'taze me bro.